Driving home last night there was a 5 masted sailing cruise ship off the Island

Stopped to take a picture on the phone ... not too good quality but you get the idea!

Turns out its "Windsurf" largest sailing cruise ship in the world en route Portsmouth to Dublin (at a cost of $2900 pp) ... 319 passengers (191 crew) computer controlled self-furling sails (4 diesel donks driving two eletric motors) with a top speed of 12 knts under power and 17 knts with sails and power. Two swimming pools and two hot tubs! I've never seen anything like it before and thought she was absolutely stunning!

<<...The UK's largest crane with a boom length of 104m (that’s twice the length of Nelson’s column) lifted the mast itself, with two further cranes supporting the forestays with an additional crane required for the tail of the mast. Local company Macsalvors provided two of these and further coordinated the hire of two specialist cranes from Ainscough...>>